We still have the power of prayer that can change the details in the way that Hashem’s plan will come about. A plumber came to fix one of The Gadol Hador Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky’s pipes. After he finished, Reb Chaim quoted the Pasuk which tells us to pay our workers on time and happily paid the plumber for his service.
Then he gave him a lesson. He asked the plumber how does he pray for his parnasa, does he ask that other Jews should have plumbing problems so that he could have money?
The plumber was silent.
Reb Chaim told him, let me teach you how to pray for parnasa. You should say, “Hashem, if it has been decreed that someone must suffer, let it not be either physical or spiritual suffering, but only with a burst pipe or something of the sort. This way everyone will benefit, it’s good for them and it’s good for you.”
Reprinted from the Parashat Miketz 5786 email of Jack E. Rahmey based on the Torah teachings of Rabbi Amram Sananes.
